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Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when organizations come together to tackle social and environmental challenges. Research reveals how inter-organizational collaborations for social impact often run into structural or governance issues like power asymmetries or a focus on the wrong metric of success.

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Partnering to Advance Grassroots Movements Through Collaboratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This sense of urgency led the Dagevilles to collaborative funds, where they saw the most opportunity to learn while giving and could give in a way that empowered local leaders. Their satisfaction with this funding model has since led to a decision that they will channel 50 percent of their grantmaking budget into collaboratives.

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How cross-sector collaboration can create lasting change 

Candid

Government has the scale and policy tools to make change sustainable. Moreover, businesses, nonprofits, and government each benefit. The most effective corporate social responsibility efforts are built on real partnerships with nonprofits and supported by government policies that allow these collaborations to thrive.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It demonstrated that when innovative leaders empower proximate communities, orchestrate strategic collaboration across sectors and geographies, and unlock creative capital, they dont just challenge the status quothey leap past it, catapulting systemic change forward. Their effort was not an outlier. This short film by If Not Us Then Who?

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Before releasing the report, in October 2024, Impact Experience convened over 30 representatives from movement organizations, impact investing firms, and environmental justice groups to share best practices, promote collaboration, and cultivate a community focused on utilizing financial systems as tools for systemic change.

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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Certainly, because many nonprofits are being hamstrung by frozen or withdrawn government grants and must respond to many other policy challenges, philanthropy can play an exceedingly valuable role by investing counter-cyclically to ameliorate these headwinds. Funding for environmental and climate advocates provides a vivid example.

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Why Fashion Education Needs to Care About Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

These environmental challenges make it clear that addressing sustainability in fashion is essential. This educational framework perpetuates the unsustainable practices of fast fashion , where speed and cost take precedence over environmental and social responsibility. Why have fashion education programs been slow to adapt?